Greylock Partners has gained accolades – and bundles of money — in the past 15 months from early bets on consumer Internet brands Facebook, LinkedIn and Pandora. Now, it’s reaping rewards from investments in the lesser known but still lucrative arena of business software, where Greylock...
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Greylock Partners is reaping rewards from business software companies such as Palo Alto Networks and Workday.
Greylock Follows Facebook Win With Business Software IPOs
Chinese, Indian Companies Land Largest Mobile VC Investments
With Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android dominating the market, it’s easy to think of Silicon Valley as the center of the mobile universe. But when it comes to the industry’s largest venture capital investments during the first half of the...
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Y Combinator’s Young Startups Tout Revenue Over Users
When Jamie Wong pitched her online travel startup Vayable to the hundreds of investors at an event yesterday put on by Y Combinator, one slide in her presentation drew an audible chuckle from the audience. A graph showed that Vayable’s...
Read more »Discovery Bay Games Raises $15M From Trilogy Equity, Logitech
Discovery Bay Games, which makes tablet accessories such as an iPad controller for classic Atari titles, announced today it raised $15 million. The funding round, led by Trilogy Equity Partners LLC and Logitech, will help the Seattle-based company release a...
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OpenVizsla is named after Vizsla dogs, which are known for their ability to be trained and sniff.
After Getting Funded, Some Kickstarter Projects Stall
Kickstarter began in 2009 as a way for entrepreneurs to raise money to get projects off the ground. Though the company’s fundraising platform has been a success, many projects have not. More than a million backers have given $274 million...
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The latest venture by Matt Hyman, left, and Zach Hyman is SpotOn, a customer-loyalty service for restaurants and stores.
Twin Brothers Take on Two Companies at the Same Time
Matt Hyman says he has an edge over other technology entrepreneurs: There’s two of him. He and his identical-twin brother Zach have been in business together since they were kids. At the age of 12, they sold caramel-nut clusters and...
Read more »Tech Companies Spend More on Fewer Acquisitions, Study Says
Technology companies are showing their preference for making big acquisitions over doing many smaller ones, according to a report from PricewaterhouseCoopers. The number of technology deals in the second quarter decreased 35 percent, while total spending increased 19 percent compared to...
Read more »Upstart Aims to Crowdfund Entrepreneurial College Grads
Upstart, a new company started by a former Google executive, is unveiling a crowdfunding service to help college graduates pursue their entrepreneurial dreams. By using Upstart, graduates in just about any field can raise capital for their business in exchange for giving up...
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Source: SecondMarket.
Data as of June 30, 2012.
Startup Employees Selling Shares Now Instead of Later, Study Says
A greater percentage of startup employees are choosing not to wait until after they leave the job to cash out their shares, according to SecondMarket, a popular online private-equity exchange. In the first half of the year, 59.8 percent of...
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